Another Vile Practice Brought Here ...

[ladybirder]

I hope this is dealt with more successfully than FGM has been.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jan/26/revealed-dozens-of-girls-subjected-to-breast-ironing-in-uk

How can people think this is ever OK especially in 2019?

[sanmac]

Theland, have you noticed, and it's blatantly obvious, how your more vehement detractors have not responded to your short list of anti-social behaviour mentioned at 2227?

[Rockrose]

Naomi
//The perpetrators of this crime should be found and dealt the full boundaries of our courts//
This what I wrote I stick by this sorry if it’s not enough haste for you.

[Theland]

Sammac- Why is that?

[naomi24]

Rockrose, yes ...I read that ....

[Mamyalynne]

I only wish I were clever enough to formulate and get out a plan of education to all concerned, young and old that however longstanding these practices are - A)They don't work and B) They are harmful, even deadly and could result in prosecution and a total breakdown in their families.

Also give girls and young women somewhere to voice their concerns.

[vetuste_ennemi]

// now entire cultures, even those wholly unconnected with this atrocity, are being implicated//

Not an unreasonable extension of the OP, is it, Jim? Cultures affect behaviour, someone told me recently.

If your culture teaches you that FGM is an honourable practice, or that rape (even of children) is under certain conditions religiously, and therefore morally permissible, then you're not going to change your mind[i simply because you've moved from Lahore or Mogadishu to Manchester or Luton. Are you?

The point and question (implicit in the OP) is to what extent these contributors to diversity are likely to change their [i]behaviour]. Assuming, of course, that in today's multicultural Britain you think they should.

[Mamyalynne]

Old practices handed down aren't specific to foreign lands, though not all are as harmful as others.

My Grandmother (Born 1890s in County Durham) was brought up believing that piercing the ears of newborns improved sight and helped prevent drowning.

Ludicrous of course and she never did it with her many babies.

[naomi24]

Where’s the joke that is #MeToo when you need them?

[marval]

Another dreadful habit that must be stamped on. All people who do practices such as this should be caught and severely dealt with. Unfortunately I don't think they will ever be totally eradicated.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//I only wish I were clever enough to formulate and get out a plan of education to all concerned....//

Neither you, nor anyone else, Mamya. I refer you to the Birmingham school thread on the LGBT propaganda programme. The personable and articulate Ms Shah who was fronting the protests is not going to change her religious beliefs and moral values because you tell her to, or even if you threaten her with legal sanction. Far less the scarved women she's speaking for many of whom don't speak English.

[Mamyalynne]

No idea Naomi, where did you last see them?

[237SJ]

Naomi - you misunderstand. I said that I don't feel strongly about 'issues'. I wasn't necessarily talking about chest ironing.

[Mamyalynne]

Throwing hands up in the air because, we'll never get through V_E.?

No much point in trying to discuss it then, tis late now - Goodnight on this.

[spathiphyllum]

Imagine in a western country 98% of males that are born had his foreskin chopped off. Yet this is considered normal?

[naomi24]

Mamyalynne, //Throwing hands up in the air because, we'll never get through V_E.? No much point in trying to discuss it then…//

I don’t see hands being thrown in the air. I do, however, see a realistic response to the suggestion that education is the answer.

[emmie]

what a disgusting practice, couldn't read too far into it as it was making me feel sick.